Re: pidgin add a buddy transient not moveable

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2008-10-07, A K <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have my pidgin (.im) buddy list nice and narrow on the right of my
>> screen. When someone wants to add themselves as a buddy of mine a
>> transient window pops up but half of it is hidden and when I move the
>> buddy list to another (bigger) frame the transient doesn't move with
>> it.
>
> How is the window hidden? Is it clearly inside the frame of the main
> window, or could it be just partially outside the screen?

yes it's outside of the screen, perhaps hidden isn't the right description.
I think the secret I'm looking for is the Meta+LeftMouseButton moves
floating windows. tip. I'll give that a shot next time this issue
comes up.

thanks for the replies! it's been a big help.

ark


> These days Ion automatically detaches (or "unsqueezes") big transients
> that don't properly fit in the frame, and they don't follow their main
> windows around. You can disable this behaviour with
>
>    ioncore.set{ unsqueeze = false }
>
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